And then the man sees Hanguang-Jun, and Lan Sizhui looks over to see a star-struck expression on his face like the heavens have opened up and dropped something sublime on his doorstep. And then the man, swathed in black-and-red, runs.
Lan Sizhui does not see him again until the incident at Dafan Mountain. Master Mo plays a song that Lan Sizhui knows deep in his bones, and when his father materializes he has to look away for fear of being blinded by the sheer look of something on his face.
Hanguang-Jun is relieved and terrified and amazed and full of wonder.
Source: five stories about rabbits, by awenswords – 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV) [Archive of Our Own]
A completely delightful A-Yuan POV as he tries to make sense of the stranger at his father’s side and the changes he brings.